Guild Wars 2

It entirely depends if HoT is campaign sized or eotn sized.

Buffs and other abilities (such as Signet of Renweal) just need a substantial range increase. Stacking isn’t a bad thing, but it shouldn’t be required to get general (ie: not stealth) buffs.

Jungle (I think) spider in place of brown dog is pretty great. White owl is also very potent in 1v1s. Always run the wolf, though.

Allowing the gifts to be used on alts for map completion would be nice. No rewards, of course, but I find alts frustrating just because there is too much running around to get waypoints and whatnot.

I think it’ll be either cantrips or consecrations. Would be hilarious if they were given minions.

jcbroe.4329:

Thz.7569:

jcbroe.4329:

All just speculation though

With the nature of this specific thread, what is your best guess? Removal:Addition; 1:1.

4 posts up from this new one I believe is where my response is and what I think.

You listed possibilities, not a guess. It’s all in good fun and if you don’t wish to tunnel in on something specific that’s fine I’m just curious.

Maybe you could post what you’d -like- to see.

jcbroe.4329:

All just speculation though

With the nature of this specific thread, what is your best guess? Removal:Addition; 1:1.

The only real meter we have is from Guild Wars. Anet knew EotN was smaller and marked a price accordingly. What we know of this expansion so far, I’d say is around is in the middle of EotN and new campaigns. With this, I’m expecting Anet to scale up and charge for a full expansion. With what I’ve heard, I don’t believe it’s a “full” expansion, but I’m buying it anyways and I assume most people will also, allowing them to get away with it.

TheFantasticGman.9451:

We do know from the recent interview (at the time of this post) from Jon Peters about Elite Specializations that the druid will be all about some CC/Support.

I can’t find this interview, so please try to link it. But, assuming what you’re saying is true, consecrations as others have guessed, could be it.

Gotejjeken.1267:

Yeah, wards like Guardians have:

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Ward

Guardian staff even has a ward..line of warding.

I don’t doubt we will get some form of AOE, but I’m thinking in a more crowd control way then ally beneficial way.

Would be interesting if this is tied to our pet. So you send a pet somewhere, and basically it creates a perimeter. Might even be some form of ‘mobile spirit’ (since actual spirits are stationary now). So it doesn’t attack, possibly can’t be killed (or is really hard to kill), and provides some CC, or other effect.

I was being coy, as I know what wards exist, but they are -not- utility spells.

Thz.7569:

Gotejjeken.1267:

I’m going with wards in place of signets. I’m guessing the staff is a mass CC / area denial weapon.

You don’t expect the staff to be more akin to the Guardian’s? Giving us some reliable aoe?

Edit: You never said such, I meant it as a question.

Edit 2: Also, what are wards?

Gotejjeken.1267:

I’m going with wards in place of signets. I’m guessing the staff is a mass CC / area denial weapon.

You don’t expect the staff to be more akin to the Guardian’s? Giving us some reliable aoe?

There seems to be a theme where all the initial elite specs are given 4 abilities of a type (IE: Mesmer Wells) that weren’t there previously.

With this, we can assume that a type of spell will also be removed upon accepting that spec.

Here’s my fun question, what do you Rangers expect of Druids?

I expect cantrips in place of signets.

What are your guesses?

mistsim.2748:

it’s not that straight forward to me at all.. i mean, why not run a 0/6/6/6/0 frontliner instead to get Quickdraw and go double maul? or double Path of Scars?

it’s too soon to tell. my first impressions are good, but i need to theorycraft for a few days before i can come up with serious suggestions.

That’s fair, and I could definitely see that working. It just doesn’t -feel- very interesting to me.

Builds appear to be pretty straight forward from what they’ve showed us.

Zerk Snipe/Dungeoneering, 6/6/6/0/0
Condi 6/6/x/x/0 ~ 1v1/Bunker 6/6/0/6/0
WvW Frontline 0/0/6/6/6 (gs+axe/x)

Nothing all that exciting and nothing that feels very inspiring. It’s very unfortunate because I don’t see how a single elite spec line will change the dynamic of the Ranger in a way that it becomes interesting. Disinterest in the Ranger is also what the Devs showed us in the presentation.

I don’t see Anet making Rangers weaker. However, the strengths of current and future ranger is largely contextual towards what the new class and every spec offers. I don’t see too much changing within pve, but the pvp-sphere should get very very interesting.

whitz.7246:

My error, live and learn and I will be more careful in checking things out in the future. I couldn’t quit GW2 just a heat of the moment statement. Now on to play for fun
Thank everyone..

Getting those giant kills -is- quite the feat, though. Maybe you can submit a suggestion for a Giant Slayer title or something)

Zenith.7301:

Are you sure those are even the Muursat? All I heard was talk of the “Exalted”.

I’m stretching here, but it’s possible that the Mursaat we know don’t represent all “Mursaat”. They could’ve been a fanatical sect; something like the Flame Legion for the Charr.

It’s mind boggling that this game still allows pre-made groups to match-up with people who solo queue. What’s the issue in allowing duos, but nothing further?

We’ll have a better idea on the size of the “expansion” when they release its price. No reason to fret just yet.

Allarius.5670:

So, what if …

Instead of swapping to a second pet, the Druid and his pet meld. It wouldn’t be a full weapon set swap, but rather alter their profession skills (F1-F3), with F4 splitting the Ranger and pet apart again. The profession skills could be based on the family of the pet that was equipped, perhaps even one being a Ranger counterpart to that pet’s species specific skill.

I don’t think we know how traits, trait lines, and trait line attributes will change with any specialization yet, but if they are kept much the same then any points in the Beast Mastery equivalent (healing power and Pet Attribute Bonus) could award the Druid the Pet Attribute Bonus while melded.

Just a fun thought that came to mind and figured I would share.

Or, ya know… no pets at all and animal kits~

Although unlikely, it is still possible for druid to be petless. There’s a ton of ideas out there and it wouldn’t be surprising for them to be toying with several iterations of each spec. Yeah, we caught a glimpse of a druid with a pet, but that doesn’t mean it’ll make the final cut. Here’s to hoping anyway.

Thanks for the replies. Hopefully this gets looked into soon.

kokocabana.8153:

The extra bit of healing that you are getting comes from WvW bonuses. They affect everyone on the server.

Right. So, Cleansing Burst then —

I haven’t ran it in about 4 months. Are 30/40 runs still smooth? What is there to look out for? I play a guardian; What impact have the changes had on dredge/tom/etc?

Thanks!

Edit: Also, have there been any stealth updates for improved loot?

I submitted a bug report, but I also figured I’d give a short post here for visibility as I’m sure an engineer using healing power is a huge minority.

Basically, mine still hits 2.6k with 1k+HP. Using 1kHP as a staple, that should add 500 to first heal and 500 to cleansing burst for 1k total. Right now the initial heal is healing a -tad- extra(by extra, I mean a little more than what it should with HP) while the cleansing burst doesn’t seem to be affected at all.

If I’m missing something, let me know — but delves are delves, right?

All that stuff is too drastic.

One thing, though; Being able to use a hammer on my eng would make me so very happy.

Still open? I may be interested if so. Shoot me an in-game mail if you’ve any questions for me.

No thanks, that just promotes complete farming including the low levels which are mind numbingly boring.

Acquisition needs to give benefit for those of higher levels. An example would be maintaining the rng in 20/30 but having 40+ fractals drop a reward ticket instead so you can choose which one you want.

There are lucky people; There are unlucky people (the majority). Complains have been ongoing for months and it’s quite simple — they react or they don’t. Fotm skin acquisition has to be revamped and that’s the bottom line.

In addition to that, their dungeons have very little hope. They can revamp them like they did AC all they want but they’re still kittening dull and will still have the same vendor items.

Fotm is the one pve area where they can keep expanding and continue to make amazing, yet they completely kittening ignore it. Anet has gone downhill and has zero kittening idea what they’re doing. Their lack of pvp intuition led me to the pve side of the game and there it’s arguably worse.

It’s GG.

I’ve never complained about anything, but with spirit watch being the tourney match of the week has pushed me to the edge.

(This rant is solo queue)

An ele that wants to run the orb nonstop is without a kittening doubt unfair. I’ve never been so kittening frustrated in my 15 years of mmo pvp. What in the kitten is this? You say you can put things in the game whenever you want yet you choose to leave kitten shuit like this in the game evne AFTER it’s already been talked about in sotg? kitten you.

Edit: Excuse the typos; I really don’t want to edit my frustration.

This is happening to me as well on JQ.

Outside of weapons (which I actually like), there isn’t much point. There are some who enjoy the challenge, though. I like the fractals in general much much more than any other form of pve in the game but you are correct, high level fotm gives kitten for rewards and if you’ve browsed the forums in the past few months you’d be able to see us complaining about it without any response.

Guardians can do damage, but our stand alone damage isn’t so hot. When you add others to the mix giving us fury and lots of might, we can hit decent numbers, but they still aren’t very high.

The thing is, though, the damage is still good for what we offer in other areas and is definitely not so low that wanting to build dps is a bad idea. I personally prefer gearing my character for offense because defensive utility naturally comes with the class and I find that makes my character very well-rounded. To me this is enjoyable, but if dps is what you are most concerned with, stick to your mesmer.

Venereus.9473:

Thz.7569:

Fotm is unique in that exotic karma armor can drop. These items are account bound and you won’t see this in other parts of the game. Regular exotics, however, are the same and can be traded.

They can also have stats otherwise unavailable on exotic armor, like Wayfarer and Cavalier.

I’ve only received that on accessories and -maybe- weapons, but never on armor. But I’ll take your word for it. Good catch if that’s the case.

Fotm is unique in that exotic karma armor can drop. These items are account bound and you won’t see this in other parts of the game. Regular exotics, however, are the same and can be traded.

I’d love weapon improvements to guardians, and I’d like to see a lot more for other classes as well. With the staff in mind, however, there is one fix that HAS to happen, now:

The orb getting stuck.

This is the most frustrating thing ever and reduces the effectiveness of the staff by an extreme amount. I like to use my orb on CD, but many times I can’t because I’m stuck with the detonate ability.

You guys sound like the perfect guild for me, unfortunately, I don’t want to xfer back to SBI — so here’s an ittybittybump) Good luck on your recruitment!

Quickness I believe was more of a pvp fix (I say fix because it was too strong), while not affecting pve at all. As anet has stated, though they can nerf pvp/pve only and separate abilities, they rather not, which I agree with.

Hammer is a preference thing, you might like it) I personally find the shield to be garbage but I still have one that I use (only for the CC in grawl fractal to protect captives). I do know people trait the shield though while running boon duration and can keep long durations of protection up on their team with it in conjunction with hold the line.

I haven’t seen a single use for the mace. I suppose it could work with traiting up symbols and liking to -feel- supporty. Its effectiveness realistically though is pretty much null.

I agree with many posters. Sub-10 fractals are actually a fun experience for people under 80 unlike a lot of the dungeons in this game. Do your thing!

iPlayZombies.8102:

Hi Urvreybady!

So I am currently downloading all 20GB’s of the game, and in the mean time i just want to ask a few question.

What character do you recommend for me to create (I Usually like to be a mage)
And can i make multiple profiles?

Also is money and the economy a big part of the game?
In Runescape (Yes, Runescape), money is a major part of your success, so i was wondering if there are armours and weapons that cna only be purchased wiht lots of money etc.

And finally, are there any tips for newbies like me? I am excited to get going in GW2.

Thanks,
Kev.

First and foremost, to an RS player, please keybind.

—Elementalist
—You can make multiple characters, yes
—Economy is serverwide and a big deal, only split by NA and EU

~The biggest point I can give to a new player is to keep an open mind, which means removing any idea of shortcuts. Only then will you be able to hone your skills and enjoy the world for what it is.

Lonewolf Kai.3682:

Thz.7569:

Generally speaking, giving up power is a no-no. A better way to look at your situation is to see how much vit/tough you’re willing to give up for more offense.

No can do. Vit/tough are exactly where I want them. no more, and definately no less.

Then power will always come out on top.

DAoC, my favorite MMO, will be my quick reference point for my post.

Hard rupts, etc aside — DAoC had the right idea. When you want RvR (WvW), you have to give groups the ability to fight zergs, which means no AoE cap. To make this fair, the strongest aoe spells were very short range(pbaoe) while the long range aoe spells didn’t have much splash. It’s so simple, yet completely overlooked by the anet team. However, this game is what it is and either we like what’s put out there for us or we don’t. This isn’t something that will see change in its current state, at least not for a -very- long time.

Goose.5196:

Thz.7569:

I’ll probably get hate for this idea, but here goes :

Keep the rng in 20 and 30, but have 40+ have a chance at redeemable tokens(like fused weps) instead of a random skin.

Done.

Much better than what they have now….

It was something I came up with on a whim, but I wanted there to still be a reason for players like me to want to keep doing the 40 dailies despite them taking longer.

I’m okay with 20/30 having a chance at weapons, but it kitten es me off when they’re walking around with the weapon they want with hardly any time invested while I’ve been at 500 for a long time and haven’t gotten a single weapon of use.

I believe this creates a lazy medium.

Generally speaking, giving up power is a no-no. A better way to look at your situation is to see how much vit/tough you’re willing to give up for more offense.

Lots of guilds host public bounties. I know Commendation (GC) over on Tarnished Coast do multiple a week for NA players and always post a thread on reddit before hand. Try to look around so you can get them done while still trying to progress with your own guild

I’ll probably get hate for this idea, but here goes :

Keep the rng in 20 and 30, but have 40+ have a chance at redeemable tokens(like fused weps) instead of a random skin.

Done.

So basically:

1.) Acquiring skins is a mess
2.) High level fotm has the same rewards as low level but a huge scale in difficulty

My opinion is that these two are -extremely- important to fix, yet Anet has not mentioned fotm in months. So what do we do? We can continue to kitten and keep playing it, or stop. I’m nearing the breaking point of quitting because even skins aside, the hours I spend in fotm also yield next to nothing in terms of gold.

Also, wru cultist hammer

Nike.2631:

Its stunning how little you understand either class.

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